Category: Biographies

You are here (in Chapel Hill) because, two hundred years ago, some people pooled their ideas, energy, and money to dig a well, collect some books, and hire some professors. Italians tend to cluster in groups, and their architecture encourages this clustering. After the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, Lazarus became a spokeswoman for Judaism and was an early advocate of a national Jewish homeland in Palestine. Stay connected with Smithsonian Channel’s original series, documentaries and fun facts — on the go, anytime, anywhere with the Smithsonian Channel app for iPhone and iPod Touch.

The British removed Acadians from Acadia ( Nova Scotia ) and replaced them with New England Planters. [33] Eventually, some Acadians resettled in Louisiana, where they developed a distinctive rural Cajun culture that still exists. She directed the first President’s Commission on the Status of Women. Their mission is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community. Typically, the modernization thesis assumes that a people have had a feudal past, peasantry, and common heritage—think of a remote Alpine village.

S. planes had been carrying out for months. Mistrust, occurs from approximately birth to one year. These lines from the famous Pop band the Rolling Stones are only a few among others who have revolutionized the music scenes in the last few decades. State governments and tribes disapproved of the law. Half of each school day was spent on industrial training. Death Notice: Sylvia Pines, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 4 (July-August 1985), 6.

It was accepted that the Shaman had the power to cure, kill, predict the future, and start the rains. Peasant women typically sell much of the family harvest in regional open-air market places and use the money to buy household foods. The company has expanded upon on its strong European roots to move forward on an international scale with fully-owned subsidiaries in the United States, China, Japan, India and in the Middle East; spare parts centres in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Washington, Beijing, Dubai and Singapore; engineering and training centres in Toulouse, Miami, Wichita, Hamburg, Bangalore and Beijing; and more than 150 field service offices around the world.

The penalty for breaking this rule was usually the death penalty. That summer, the Germans struck with their own two-prong assault, intending to isolated and capture or destroy Soviet forces within that bulge. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalizing key historical events by examining the major characters at the center of them.

He was three times a member of the county board of examiners and once secretary of the board of Education. [pg 703] James CRESWELL, tanner and farmer of Capon district, son of Abraham and Mary Creswell, English and Irish ancestry, was born 1816; married Margaret, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth CLINE, 1848; children, Mary V., Charles W., Alverdie C., James B., Edward P., Cordelia E., Bessie O., Ida E., and Lydia I. The Encyclopedia bears the imprimatur of the Most Reverend Archbishop under whose jurisdiction it is published.

For most western visitors, the bulk of Russia's history is nothing more than a compendium of hazy legends and sensationalist rumors--from scurrilous stories about Catherine the Great to tabloid television reports of the miraculous survival of the children of Nicholas II. She died leaving diamonds hidden in her room and property all over Central Texas. ( audio ) As the wife of the founder of the most famous ranch in the world, the King Ranch in South Texas, Henrietta King frequently was in charge of the ranch and defended it from Indians and bandits while her husband was away.

Because success means doing well in voluntary groups, a voluntaristic culture also encourages individuals to strive for status. Although pasta and bread are still staples for all classes, it is what else and in what quantity meat is available that marks social classes. Wilhelmina Delco experienced many "firsts" in her life: first African American elected to the Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees, first African American elected to represent Travis County in the Texas House of Representatives, and first woman appointed Speaker Pro Tempore of the House.

CUNNINGHAM, farmer of Mill Creek, son of Samuel and Mary C. The terrorist group le Front de liberation du Québec shows what’s ahead when it fire-bombs three Canadian Army halls. The 5th century Greek historian Herodotus is today commonly recognized as the “father of history” along with his contemporary Thucydides. Among them, The Thirteenth Arhat, Ingada (1345), and Four Arhats and Attendants (Ming dynasty, fifteenth century) are both single examples from sets of paintings of arhats or luohans, guardians of the Buddhist law often represented in China in groups of sixteen, eighteen or five hundred.

It was the beginning of the age of the "Grand Tour," when educated and wealthy citizens embarked on the "Grand Tour' to Italy, France, Germany and The Netherlands. The earliest Romantic composers were all born within a few years of each other in the early years of the nineteenth century. The defense batteries Tokyo currently has are outdated, and Musudan missiles like the ones North Korea have tested would be too fast to divert in time.